Lightroom 3.6 Publish Service file name bug?

I did a cursory Google for this, but otherwise haven’t fully investigated it. Instead I’m posting this half to remind to me to look into this deeper when I get a chance. In any event, here’s what I’m seeing…

In Lightroom 3.6 I have a Hard drive Publish Service setup to push out images to be synced to my iPad (though that last bit isn’t really important). File naming (renaming) is disabled so files should be named exactly the same as they are in the library. Regardless of what the format is set to under File Settings, the file names are always given the extension “.jpg”. So I’ll end up with a folder of TIFFs, PSDs, and RAWs that all are all named *.jpg in published folder.

I don’t usually mess with the output settings for a Publish Service after the service has been setup, so I don’t know if this is new, or has been an issue for some time.

Is anybody else seeing this?

Forgot to note, this is 64-bit Lightroom on 64-bit Win 7 Pro.

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Comments

Are you able to open the ‘new’ set of photo’s as jpeg or are they having problems opening because they are the wrong format?

I beleive when they are published they are new files generated for the export.

Perhaps you should try working with the catologue settings, you can export a catologue and that will give you all orignainal files duplicated.

V. J. Franke | admin

January 14, 2012 2:43 PM

No they’re not JPEGs, they’re whatever I set Lightroom to publish (DNGs, TIFFs, RAWs) the Publish Service export code is merely not giving them the correct extension.

Regular exports work correctly, it’s only the publish services that seem fubar.

Though to be honest, I’m not looking for a solution as much as I’m looking to see if anybody else can reproduce the problem.

To reproduce:

Create a new HD publish service

Set the file type to JPEG

Publish a picture

Change the publish file time to TIFF

Republish your pictures.

Are the file names still [code]*.jpg[/code] or do the properly reflect the file type?

JB

January 19, 2012 12:10 AM

Hey there,

I’m having a similar issue with 3.6 – When I go to ‘Export’ the usual options for file renaming are gone, replaced only with a ‘custom’ option.

I know this isn’t the exact issue you’re facing, but it could be another bug with 3.6

V. J. Franke | admin

January 19, 2012 12:16 AM

The file naming list shown in the export dialog is the same as the file name list displayed when you press F2 to rename files in the library. Are you seeing the full list if you do that?

Also check [code]%system_dirve%:\%profile_path%\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\Lightroom\Filename Template[/code] and make sure there are files in that directory (there should be one for each of your file name presets). On Windows Vist or 7 it would be something like “c:\users\user_name\appdata\roaming\adobe\lightroom\filename templates”, on Windows XP it would be “C:\documents and settings\user_name\appdata\adobe\lightroom\filename templates”. Unfortunately, I’m not entirely sure where they are on a Mac.

Alex Herbert

April 10, 2012 6:09 AM

It seems that this issue is still present in LR4.

As far as I can tell the filenames are set using the current export service settings when the image is first written out. If you subsequently change the filename option (or in your case the file type) this does not update the names of the already exported images. It will effect any new images to be published.

I assume that Lightroom is tagging each image with the original filename used when it was first exported. This allows it to replace the original file when any develop settings are altered.

You can test this as follows:

Set-up a hard drive publish service.Create and publish a folder with a few images.Change the filename/file type output options.Re-publish the folder => No filename changeCreate a new publish folder in the same service and copy the images across.Publish the second folder => Updated filenames

This is the method I have had to use to change my output filenames to have a date/time prefix. I had to duplicate each folder and then republish. Simply updating the output filename options was not enough.